Comments on: London Underground, grinning man and ipods

By: Marleny

Marleny — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:45:17 +0000

….ehem….a few typos there like possessive….whether…..etc…….it’s midnight…..too late for a teacher…….night,night! Don’t let the bed bugs bite!

By: Marleny

Marleny — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:38:16 +0000

Thanks for the warning! I won’t trust her! ;^)
This non-intrusive life style seems like glory at first (coming from Cuba i was relieved to live in Maine). Nobody would ask me where i was going ,wether i was married or not,if i was planning on having babies soon,etc. It felt like the promised land of freedom! After a couple of years i started remembering the Cuban style: helpful and intrusive, loving and possesive, giving and jealous. Now i see the value in it although i’m not sure about being able to live within its frame at this point. At some point we tend to feel lost. No cultural background to turn to. We’ve given up our habits but we can’t quite grasp this new self-imposed reality. Now,that’s the story of a few immigrants i know of. Tell me yours in a couple of years,please. I would be very interested in knowing how YOU grow into it. I’m not as resilient as i was five/six years ago. But you have a very good chance of adjusting without experiencing too much pain. I’m very glad to see you….Ipod and all! :^)

By: Pareshaan

Pareshaan — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:48:45 +0000

Nice post – both yours and wendigos – good stuff.

By: Neha Viswanathan

Neha Viswanathan — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:18:29 +0000

Reshma: LOL! Kanoon ki aankh? It sounds slightly less weird if we could say Kanoon ki aanken no? I like sticking out my tongue at CCTVs. Or even flashing a smile.

Wendigo: See, we’ve had this discussion before. You know exactly what I am going to say. That one doesn’t have to be engaged with all senses with a particular space. That listening to music is somewhat like reading a book. Or even wearing a perfume.

Marleny: I warn you. Wendigo is GLUED to her cellphone. She’s always playing with it and fiddling with its controls. Heh! And please do say Hello more often! I completely miss conversations with you about the immigrant life, Spanish and other random details.

Sunny: It’s true – people don’t really help that much. But one thing is true of all helpful places – they are also more intrusive. For me, London is a breath of fresh air. The nonintrusiveness of people makes up for its lack of social skills. Podcasts – yes – so easy to catch up with them now.

Taran: You are the grand-daddy of subversion. Don’t we all know? :)

By: Taran

Taran — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 01:54:07 +0000

Dunno about iPods… I like portable MP3 players, but don’t advertise for Apple…

As for the subversion… I do it whenever I can. ;-) Systems that are subverted are almost always systems that need to be subverted.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:43:47 +0000

Heh, can’t live without my ipod now. In fact I even have episodes of Goodness Gracious Me on there incase I get excessively bored or (rarely) depressed.

The other things is… podcasts! I got the damn NYT, Guardian, Washington Post, BBC and any other news I can get on my ipod. Listening to news while walking, now THAT’S what I’m talking about!

Ahem, sorry.

The thing that annoys me about tubes is that people rarely help each other, even when I see people dragging heavy luggage up the stairs. Now I cannot go past and not offer to help (once you start you’re hooked) but it’s a bit sad I don’t see many others do it.

By: Marleny

Marleny — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:20:58 +0000

I just left this link at Wendigo’s!! After all …are we monkeys or not?! :^) It’s called :Dance ,monkeys,dance!

http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com/

About standing in line…..at least you won’t go through so much trouble like these people when gas prices and global warming hit the roof:

http://www.renewus.org/index.html